About the Employer
Whitman Laboratories, part of The Estée Lauder Companies, is a long established and highly respected cosmetics manufacturing site with decades of expertise in producing premium skincare, makeup, and fragrance products. The facility is recognised for its advanced production technologies, high precision processes, and commitment to delivering world‑class beauty products to consumers across the UK and global markets.
What You’ll Do
As an Engineering Maintenance Technician Apprentice, you will be trained to become highly skilled at maintaining and improving advanced machinery. Your apprenticeship will give you hands‑on experience across a wide range of engineering activities, including responding to breakdowns, supporting 24‑hour production, completing planned preventative maintenance, and contributing to continuous improvement projects.
You’ll work closely with production teams, support changeovers and set‑ups, promote safe working practices, and build strong cross‑functional relationships.
Your core responsibilities will include:
- Respond to breakdowns, systematically fault‑find, identify the root cause and then implement solutions to prevent recurrence.
- Support 24‑hour Site Production Operations and proactively engage with all departments to supply an effective, efficient, compliant service.
- Carry out Planned Preventative Maintenance.
- Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities to increase equipment efficiency, effectiveness, reliability and process robustness.
- Provide engineering support for production activity to meet customer requirements and site operations where required.
- Provide proactive, flexible support for production activities with changeovers, set‑ups, change parts and skill transfer.
- Actively build internal and external departmental relationships.
- Support cross‑functional activity relating to Safety, Quality and Project Work with supporting documentation.
- Promote safe systems of work, adhering to Safety, Compliance, GMP and audit working practices.
- Maintain skills and knowledge of equipment and changing technologies with training and sharing of best practices with peers and other support groups.
- Participate in company initiatives as Subject Matter Expert to seek resolutions to common issues.
- Adhere to regulations and legislative working practices.
For the right candidate, a full‑time position may be offered upon successful completion of the apprenticeship.
Skills Required
- IT skills
- Customer care skills
- Administrative skills
- Numerical skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical skills
- Mechanical aptitude
- Skilled in using tools
Qualifications
- Essential – GCSE English C/4
- Essential – GCSE Maths C/4
Course Information
- Course: Engineering maintenance technician – single discipline (level 3)
- Level: 3
- Route: Engineering and manufacturing
- Apprenticeship Level: Advanced
- Training Provider: PETA LIMITED
Working Arrangements
Working Week: Monday – Friday 7am to 3pm OR Monday – Friday 3pm to 11pm (2 roles available for each shift).Expected Duration: 3 Years 10 Months.Number of Positions Available: 4.
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